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I have nothing against ads. I don’t like to see a lot of them, and I really don’t like ad-encrusted blogs. But the bills need to get paid, and people need to get compensated for their work. That’s fine.

But I get upset over deceptive ads. It bothers me to see long-standing conventions of web page usability perverted to trick users into clicking.

One of the most blatent examples of this is the type of ad that looks like a message from your computer, complete with OK button. But most people are savvy enough nowadays to not fall for that.

However, Google encourages people to use another type of deceptive ad — the link ads that look like navigation pages. This is not “doing no evil,” Google. This is wrong, wrong, wrong. (more…)